Andrew Ference ‘deeply sorry that we had to miss so much hockey’

Between his humor and smarts,Andrew Ference is one of the more interesting professional athletes to follow on Twitter. Given that, it should come as no surprise that the Bruins defenseman, who was on hand for this weekend’s negotiations, celebrated the end of the lockout with both humor and a sincere apology for leaving so many without hockey.

Ference, an environmentalist who offsets his travel throughout the season’s impact by purchasing carbon credits, kicked things off with a simple thumbs up and later tweeted a picture of the assembled media in New York with a “Game on” caption before adding the following:

For every NHL pass, a tree will be planted. Every NHL goal, a solar panel will be installed. Wait’¦ what? Those proposals didn’t get in?!?